Quando si pensa di produzione regatanti, probabilmente picture moto 600cc Supersport copertura a 160 in Daytona trioval. Ma il concetto è nato un po 'più indietro, con moto come questo 1908 "Torpedo Tank" indiano.
Almost as soon as the Hendee Manufacturing Company began mass production of motorcycles in India in 1902, the company was running. In 1907, motorcycle competition has become a form of popular entertainment in the United States, with the Indians dominating the speed and reliability contests.
While the first machines were powered by single cylinder engines, the Indian built one of a kind V-twin for his race team in 1905, and created a twin-cylinder bike on the road in 1907.
But to keep the brand competitive races at the local level, where the factory team would not be at hand, even cranked Indian pilots a small lot production, to since 1908.
The motion, as this car owned by John Parham of Anamosa, Iowa, currently on display at Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio, was not as exotic as the factory drivers. But they were considerably warmer than the model of the road, and that was even before this car has a carburetor and makeup Breeze lightweight pistons in its 61-cubic-inch (1,000 cc) motor.
Indians were the bike of choice for many drivers, but Paul JC Derkum literally made his name on a 1908 Indian twin like this. On February 22, 1908, broke 10 speed records Derkum a mile dirt track in Los Angeles-clicking the fastest time never to fly a mile, two miles, three miles, and so on up to 10 miles.
His results have been chronicled in newspapers, Los Angeles with a scribe, dubbing him "Derkum Dare Devil", a name that stuck throughout his career.
At the moment, the young men who dreamed of being able to purchase this racing production in India for $ 360. E 'weighed 120 pounds, and in stock trim, it could go 65 mph. All in all, which made the bike's 600 Supersport 1908.
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